Halloween Theme Haunted House Pinball My First Pinball Game

Summer jobs were a must growing up. I worked at an arcade at Oakland Mall. I love the sound of an arcade, that sound would be the same as a casino. Working long hours was always fun at the mall. Thanks to a gentleman who worked on the games, he told me of a warehouse where I could purchase my pinball machine. I grabbed my best friend Dave Moon and went with money in hand. He picked a game called Black Knight and I found a Halloween Theme Haunted House Pinball. It was a beautiful game with an upstairs level and a basement.

Since I was a kid my ultimate dream was to have a pinball machine. Anywhere I would go I was always drawn to the lights and the sound of a pinball game. They were everywhere at one time. Soda shops, arcades, 7-11's, hockey rinks, pizza parlors, and restaurant bars. I knew I would someday have one of my very own. One favorite place to go was the Van Dyke sports center in Warren. Rows and rows of pinball games lined the walls.

I ran into a slight problem. I had nowhere to store the game so I kept it at my pal Don's house till I got it working and cleaned up. At the time, I worked at a roller rink called, "The Rink," in Shelby twp on Van Dyke, 23 miles. They put my pinball machine in their arcade for a while. I made all the money back that I had paid for it at the rink. Since then, the Haunted House traveled to Indiana with me for a radio job for 8 years then back home to Michigan where it is currently in my game room at home.

Haunted House game released on October 31 1982 by Gottlieb. It was the first game with three playfields that the ball can move between, including one below the main playing surface. They made a total of 6,835 units.

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